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Environment Links and Resources
Advocates Coalition on Environment and Development (ACODE)
ACODE's mission is to promote a conducive operational environment for environmental civic organisations, to promote environmental litigation as a tool for environmental management, to promote access to enviromental information, and to advocate for community resource rights.
AfroGreenVision
This site is dedicated in helping Africans embrace sustainable development. The site contains a section dedicated to African women's resources on sustainable development. AfroGreenVision focuses on three areas: Organic farming, solar energy and environmental protection.
African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED)
The United Nations Environment Programme has initiated an African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) initiative. AREED seeks to develop new sustainable energy enterprises that use clean, efficient, and renewable energy technologies to meet the energy needs of under-served populations, thereby reducing the environmental and health consequences of existing energy use patterns.
The AREED approach offers rural energy entrepreneurs a combination of
enterprise development services and start-up financing. This integrated
financial and technical support allows entrepreneurs to plan and structure
their companies in a manner that prepares them for growth and makes
eventual investments by mainstream financial partners less risky.
Agency for Environment and Wetlands (AEW)
AEW's mission is to enhance sustainable development by carrying out research, publication, information dissemination, information sharing and networking in order to achieve sustainable economic and social development in Uganda.
Green Alternative and Peace - Uganda (GAP-UGANDA)
GAP-Uganda's mission is to promote, advocate, enhance, and act for environment, natural resources, peace, human rights, conflict resolution, social justice, grassroot empowerment, sustainable livelihood and development for all.
Green Nature
An interactive environment and nature news, information and photography destination.
Millennialtrust.com
Millennialtrust.com is a portal for human rights and the environment. Find information on human rights, nature conservation, biodiversity, disaster relief, world hunger, alternative energy, ecocapitalism, pollution control, population health and more.
National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
NEMA's mission is to develop dynamic and effective national environment policies. In addition, NEMA provides information on Uganda's state of the environment to the public and the international community.
Regional Network of Women and Sustainable Energy in Africa
The Regional Network's principle is to empower women and to engender energy for
substainable development. The Regional Network will work with women and other
relevant stakeholders to improve women's knowledge and skills on energy options
and impacts, ultimately raising their access to appropriate technologies and
overall productivity. The Regional Contact for the network is the
Environmental Liaison Centre International (ELCI) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
ELCI is an international non-governmental, non-profit organisation, established in 1974, with the aim of strengthening communication and co-operation between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society, providing liaison between NGOs and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), building the capacities of environmental NGOs in developing countries, and encouraging the advisory role
of NGOs through the international environmental conventions and organs of the
United Nations.
Strengthening Southern Involvment in the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002
The Danish 92 Group has launched the website www.rio10.dk, which aims to promote information sharing and coordination among the organizations and networks involved in the civil society preparations for the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) 2002. The Danish 92 Group is a coalition of 21 NGOs who consider it important to support the Summit preparations in 30 developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The website is part of the 92 Group project entitled "Project of Danish Support for Increased Participation of Southern NGOs in the Johannesburg Summit". The Project's main aim is to boost the participation, in terms of quality as well as quantity, of the South's civil society in the preparation for and follow-up to the Johannesburg Summit.
The website contains information describing the preparations and initiatives in relation to the Johannesburg summit in 24 developing countries including Uganda and the Uganda RIO+10 Coalition which is working towards the WSSD. The vision of the Uganda RIO+10 Coalition is to provide local NGOs with the capacity to provide an alternative assessment report of Uganda's compliance to both the ethos of Agenda 21 and the conventions which resulted from the 1992 Rio conference. The long term vision is to boost the networking capability of the Ugandan environmental NGO community to enable them to act as an environmental watchdog
to government policy and private sector practise. The focal point of the
Coalition is Joint Energy & Environment Projects (JEEP), Tel: 256-41-267303,
email: jeep@imul.com.
Who's Who of Female Environmentalists website
This website introduces a database of influential women in the field of the environment who UNEP believes should be honored and whose work should be recognized. UNEP invites individuals and organizations to add to this list by nominating women who they feel have made a significant and recognized contribution, nationally, regionally or globally, to the field of the environment. Eventually, UNEP would like to produce a comprehensive Who's Who of Women and the Environment.
Last update: April-8, 2006